Computer getting hang on accessing one specific drive, clueless on what's the issue.

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Now, whenever i access f: manually, the computer gets hanged. Say, whenever i open f:, the pc starts scanning the drive for contents, and then gets hanged. Initially, the window gets hanged, but other open aplications work, and after say 30 seconds(the time is an assumption), everything hangs. After that, the only option left is reboot. Also, when i reboot after that, cmos does not detect the HDD. I unplug the SATA cable, and then replug it, and only then the HDD becomes detectable.

If i try to play the media using the windows media player, the system doesn't get hang. But, sooner or later one needs to access the drive to copy new files, or delete some.

I tried disk defragmenting, but nothig helped.

This problem is with f: only. I face this problem in windows only. I tried with Ubuntu live cd, and the drive works well. Googling didn't help. Am still unable to get what is this problem basically - hardware or software.

IMHO, you should reformat the drive (low-level) and delete all partitions. Just assign folders. Partitioning used to be an issue with MS-DOS that can't handle cache for a drive with a size greater than 33MB. Nowadays, even a 1TB drive can be handled. Access is faster...

A caveat: Once a portion of the drive is corrupted and chkdsk /f /r fails to recover it, then the whole drive is rendered useless.

**[It used to be 30MB with MS-DOS, if my memory {no RAM here} serves right.]

I booted into ubuntu live cd, accessed the drive, and thought of possible issues. I just deleted system volume info and recycler. Thats it. There were a few folders that were deleted too(they contained two movies - including Hitman :P )

As of now, the drive's working absolutely fine Will something turn up in the future -don't know. But am relaxed at the moment.